New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction : 'Hearts Resolved and Hands Prepared'.
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New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction : 'Hearts Resolved and Hands Prepared'.
Author:
Johnson, Christopher D.
ISBN:
9781611490411
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1 online resource (295 pages)
Contents:
New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 01: The "Super" Jerry C. Beasley -- Chapter 02: Tobias Smollett: The Life of an Author -- Chapter 03: Elizabeth Singer Rowe: Lifestyle as Legacy -- Chapter 04: The Headwaters of Ooziness(Richardson the Polemicist) -- Chapter 05: Cleland's Gospel of "Extasy" -- Chapter 06: Transcultural Adoptionin the Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Novel: Questioning National Identities in Charlotte Lennox's Euphemia -- Chapter 07: Jane Barker's Exilius: Politics, Women, Narration, and the Public -- Chapter 08: Eliza Haywood's Love in Excess and the Personal Politics of Collectivity -- Chapter 09: A Brief Note on Haywood Scholarship: or, The Fatal Enquiry into the Timely Discovery and Fruitful Enquiry into the Fatal Fondness of Contemporary Scholars for Eliza Haywood -- Chapter 10: Revising the Scottish Plot in Tobias Smollett's Roderick Random -- Chapter 11: Rescuing Narcissa: Monstrous Vision, Imagination, and Redemption in Roderick Random -- Chapter 12: Smollett, the Picaresque, and Two Medical Satires -- Chapter 13: The Publication and Revision of Smollett's Continuation of the Complete History of England, 1760-1771 -- Appendix: A Descriptive Bibliography with Collation of Variant Readings for the Lifetime Editions of Smollett's Continuation -- Select Bibliography of Works by Jerry C. Beasley -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Abstract:
'New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction' is a collection of thirteen essays honoring Professor Jerry C. Beasley, who retired from the University of Delaware in 2005. The essays, written by friends, collaborators and former students, reflect the scholarly interests that defined Professor Beasley's career and point to new directions of critical inquiry.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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